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My daughter starts school today :shock: Only seems five minutes ago she was born - don't know where the time has gone. Looking on the bright side - means I get Tuesdays to myself now :lol:
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Vonny wrote:My daughter starts school today :shock: Only seems five minutes ago she was born - don't know where the time has gone. Looking on the bright side - means I get Tuesdays to myself now :lol:
My oldest is nearly 21 and the twins will be 18in a few months, still firmly glued in this house.
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I remember the feeling well Vonny. I think Mums suffer more than the children, mine loved it when they started. They even liked being sent off to prep school at just 8 ( we were in Borneo at the time)

My younger son is 31 and is STILL at home. He has yo-yoed (is that a word?) back and forth with depression. Currently after a bout last Christmas he is with us and is working as a buffet steward on the Ffestiniog Railway, not a thought what he will do when his contract expires at the beginning of November.
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We have two grand-daughters starting Secondary school today.

Anyone seen my zimmer-frame ???
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I still remember my first day at school...
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I turned up at Housie in a kilt! (... and I was only fairly distantly Scottish).

Macaroni cheese under the shark picture which was then in Dining Hall
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Great Plum wrote:I still remember my first day at school...
Likewise for my primary school. Only 6 teachers plus the headmaster and I can still remember all their names.
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Well all went well. When I dropped her off I did get a "goodbye" but she had her back to me & was inside the wendy house :roll:
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Well at least she's having fun!
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Great Plum wrote:Well at least she's having fun!
She seemed to enjoy it and can't wait to go again on Thursday (they are doing every other morning for the first two weeks :roll: ).
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shoz wrote:
Great Plum wrote:I still remember my first day at school...
Likewise for my primary school. Only 6 teachers plus the headmaster and I can still remember all their names.
Sounds pretty intimidating; one teacher (Miss Welch), one class for 5 to 11 year olds and abpout 12 pupils.

Two memories - having to write a letter of apology to some government official because I had broken something and a new pupil (Christina O**n) who cried for all her first day and never came back. (I later found out that that was the day they buried her mother).
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I started at a small village school of about 60 pupils. My teacher was an old lady with a limp called Miss Watts. (this was 1959). I later discovered (FRU) that this 'old lady' had retired in 1992 at the age of 60.

If you can't be bothered to do the arithmetic she was 27 in 1959.
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I remember that when I went to university there was a 'mature' student in our year - she was only 27 and we all thought she was really old.....
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englishangel wrote:I started at a small village school of about 60 pupils. My teacher was an old lady with a limp called Miss Watts. (this was 1959). I later discovered (FRU) that this 'old lady' had retired in 1992 at the age of 60.

If you can't be bothered to do the arithmetic she was 27 in 1959.
A limp what ??
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J.R. wrote:
englishangel wrote:I started at a small village school of about 60 pupils. My teacher was an old lady with a limp called Miss Watts. (this was 1959). I later discovered (FRU) that this 'old lady' had retired in 1992 at the age of 60.

If you can't be bothered to do the arithmetic she was 27 in 1959.
A limp what ??
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